Able Quotations | Page 9

No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.

I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.

I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

Being able to choose the skin I live in was the draw of fashion.

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.

I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn't able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on 'E.R.' That's not generally thought of as a funny show.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.

Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.

At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.

You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.

We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers.

Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling.

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

As a model you need to be able to do the craziest things.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.

I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that. And for my daughter, I want to be able to say to her, 'I love this.'

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.

I love all of my shoes! It is a must to have them color coordinated, and to be able to see each and every one of them. I know exactly where each one lives and I can tell if one has even been moved!

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself.

I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.

I've never been able to write for stand-up.

I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet to live better in five years than we do today.

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.

If I was as relaxed as what I perceived myself to be, I would not be able to multi-task the way I multi-task.

I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.

The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

If you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you're over 40 you're actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you'll do it again.

Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people in this country, and that is not socialism.